Incinerator to cost extra €7m a year

A copy of the full contract between Dublin city council and Covanta, an American company, to operate the Poolbeg incinerator shows the council will have to pay an estimated €7m extra per year to dispose of “bottom ash”.

It also reveals that Covanta will be paid half the money made from electricity generated at the plant, while only one-third of the amount earmarked for “community gain” under the terms of its planning permission is set down in the contract.

A full copy of the contract was released to The Sunday Times last week, two-and-a-half years after the paper first applied for it using Access to Information on the Environment regulations and following an appeal to the Office of the Information Commissioner. The contract shows that…

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